Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Brunching with the Girls at Elite Cafe San Francisco

Bay Area Beignets

Before diving into this delicious post, I'd like to congratulate Jessica from The Pyreflies for winning my Click n Curl Giveaway!

Now that Boston is just getting over the big Juno blizzard, I'm getting homesick for the warmth & sunshine of San Francisco back home! When I went back to visit for the holidays, brunch was a must. After all, meeting up with the girls for brunch is always a good idea! We met up at Elite Cafe in San Francisco's Lower Pac Heights, a neighborhood filled with adorable boutiques and cafes that seems like it was created for brunching.

Elite Cafe specializes in cajun & creole cuisine, so everything is packed with flavor and super hearty! We started off with a couple Bay Area Beignets (above), both of which came out impossibly warm, soft, and scrumptious.

Three of the four of us ordered the drool-worthy plate you see above: The Meetinghouse Benedict. This dish came complete with biscuits, ham hock, poached eggs, and a great hollandaise sauce. I wished the eggs were a tad more runny on the inside, but all together it was an hugely flavorful and hearty meal.

Yum! We have a little diner in my home town called The Canal Street Diner. Just a small local spot for a good cheese burger and such. It's homey, and two girls I went to high school with recently bought and took it over. I cant wait to visit again and thank them for saving a local legend. (: Oh eggs Benedict.... will you just magically appear on my desk, now? www.accordingtokiki123.blogspot.com

Hope u've enjoyed ur trip back 2 San Francisco, I always love 2 travel 2 the US, and even planning 2 get a placement there as well xx Elite Cafe seems like a wonderful places for a spontaneous brunch with ur mates. Love those Bay Area Beignets, they do look soft and very scrumptious as how u described <3 and u know Im a big fan of egg dishes, so these dishes u've shown just couldnt be better for me, although I too wish the egg benedict could be a little bit undercooked for the egg york :P Have a nice day, Chelsea xx

Oh yum!! SF is high on my list for the year. I hope we make it out! I am putting this on my pinboard! We basically still live ' back home ' haha so we don't miss anything yet. But there are plenty of places we would miss for sure! XO - Alexandra